Jean Stewart, a 62-year-old retired restaurateur in Arbroath, a town of 20,000 on Scotland’s rugged northeast coast, recently dispatched invitations for a ladies’ tea party to watch the television coverage of the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Catherine Middleton on April 29.
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A Month After the Earthquake, the Crisis Continues and the Questions Mount
Katsumi Yamauchi’s strawberries didn’t look radioactive. Nor did his tomatoes, or the waxy-skinned turnips nearby, or any of the fresh fruit and vegetables that customers perused on a busy sidewalk in central Tokyo last week
13 missing on Papua New Guinea flight
A plane carrying 13 people — including nine passengers from Australia — went missing on its way from Port Moresby to Kokoda in Papua New Guinea, the Australia Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Eastern Himalayas reveals abundance of new species
Over 350 new species including the world’s smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate change.